Jewel-bar.



No. 884,979. PATENTED APR. 14, I908.

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JEWEL BAR.

APPIiIOATION FILED JULY 12,1907.

UNITED STATES PATENT oEEroE.

HENRY W. FISHEL, or NEW YORK, N. Y.,AssIeNoR r HIMSELF AND THEODORE H. FISHEL, OF NEW YORK, N. coPARrNERs TRADING As FISHEL, NEssLER & COMPANY, OF

- NEW YORK, N.

JEWEL-BAR.

Specificationof Letters Patent.

. Patented April 14, 19 08.

Applicationflled July 12; 1907. Serial No. 388,446.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY W. FIsnEL, a citizen of the United States, residing at the borough of Manhattan, city of New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Jewel-Bars,.of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the'accompanying drawings, forming part thereof. T

In the manufacture of the cheaper or imitation grades of jewelry it is customary, where a number of jewels are set -in close proximit as in bars and clusters, to secure the jewe s in their sockets by the method known as beading. A tool provided with a cupped end is driven into the surface of the setting close to the margin of the socket, so

as'to form a rounded "boss or bead surrorinded by a groove. As the bead is formed in the surface outside of the socket it serves merely an ornamental ur ose, and the jewelis secured only by the bur formed of the metal the groove around the in the extent'to which it overlaps the jewel, and it is easily bent or broken away, so that the jewels in settings of this character fre-' quently become loose and fall out. The manufacture of settings of this kind, moreover, is difficult and requires great skill, owing to the exactness with which the beading must be pprformed in order tosecure the jewels at a .The object of the present invention is to produce a beaded setting in which the disadvantages above set forth are avoided and in which the jewels are securely fastened, while the labor and skill required in the construction of the setting are reduced to a To this end the setting is provided with projections adjacent to the sockets, which are adapted to be upset by a suitable cu ped tool so as to form beads, and the bea s so formed overlap the edges of the jewels and.

secure them firmly in place. In the formation of such heads the production of a bur is unnecessary and is avoided as far as possible, as the beads themselves are the retaining means, and thus the appearance as well as the mechanical structure of the setting is improved. This improved beading, in connection with sockets provided with curved walls partly surrounding the jewels and adapted to be bent or burnished against or over the edges of the jewels, lends itselfto the production ofa variety of ornamental effects of which a few are indicated in the accompanying drawm s.

now describe the embodiments of my invention illustrated .in the accompanying drawings, and will thereafter point out my invention in claims. A In the drawings, Figure 1 is a front view of I a jewel bar embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a section on the dot-and-dash line in Fig. 1 Fig. 3 is a front view of a modified form of the invention, and Fig. 4 is a side view of the same; Fig. 5 is a front view of a second modifiedform of the invention, and Fig. 6 is a section on thedot-and-dash line in Fig. 5. Fig. 7 is a front view of a third modified form of the invention.

The body 1 of the setting is provided with jewel sockets '2 of any desired form, preferably closed sockets for the setting of jewels of low refractive power such as are commonly used in jewelry of this character, and upon the face of the setting are formed projectlons 3 located at or close to the sockets. When the jewel 4 has been inserted'in the socket, as in Figs. 1 and 2, the projections 3 are upset by the operation of a tool similar to the ordinary beading tool, whereby they are shortened and widened .to form beads. The widening of the beadforming projections causes them to overlap the jewel, as at 5 in the drawings, and this effect is increased by directing the beading tool inwardly toward the jewel during the beading operation, so as to displace the metal inwardly. The setting is completed in the ordinary manner by forming beveled edgesfi to increase the ornamenta efiect of the setting.

In the form of the invention shown in 95 edges of the jewels. The bead-forming pro- 100 jections are located in the angles between adj acent sockets and are formed as continuations of fluted lateral projections 7. In this form of setting great security is obtained by the combined action of the beads and the 105 overlapping curved walls, and in appearance an effect is secured resembling the more ex ensive claw setting.

n the form shown in Fi s; 5 and 6 the beads are used only at one si e of'the bar, the 110 b n 1 secured at other side by the curved w I! whichhas a thin edge 8 ada ted to be bent inwardly over the edges the jewels.

as a plied to settings, or bars with a plnra ty of i may he 7 illustrates the invention rows.

- The jewel hers and clusters illustrated nin?tliiplicd added to and combined in any do to --prodnce jewelry articles such as brooches, harettes pins, combs, and other articles of a wide variety.

It is obvious that various modifications I may heme dc in the embodiments of m. in-

vention illustrated in tlredrawings and arein described the principle and scope oim invention. a

1. A jewel setting provided with a jewelsocket and projections located ad acent to the socket, the projection being short and and of greatest thickness at the base so that they; may he npset to form heads. overlap and securing a jewel in the socket.

A setting provided a ewel socket and with npset heads substantially hemispherical in form and overlapping the and overlapping the socket so as to secure the jewel therein, the heads being of a diameter greater than the amount of their projection from the body portion.

5.-A jewel setting rovided with a plurali of adj acent-jew sockets, curved walls par y surrounding the sockets and having thine "es bent inward against or over the edges 0 the jewels in the sockets, and projections located in the angles between the sockets and upset to form heads overlapping and securing the jewels-in the sockets.

6. A jewel setting provided with a ewcl socket, curved walls embracing the si es of the socket, and fluted lateral projections extending beyond the face of the setting to grin projections upset to form beads over- 7. The method of mafing jewelry which consists in forming a setting of malleable metal provided with a jewel-receiving socket pping and securing the jewel in the socket. I

and with short, thick projections located adjacent to the socket, inserting a jewel I in the socket, and upsettiniand widening the projections so as to for eads overlapping the jewel and securing it in place.

8. A jewel setting comprising a metal body provided with a jewel-receiving socket and substantially hemispherical integral projections or heads of compressed andnpset metal partially overlapping the socket and the ewel therein.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

MNRY W. FLSHEL. 

